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I have geckodriver installed in the usr/local/bin directory and exported to the $PATH variable.

export PATH=$PATH:~/usr/local/bin/geckodriver

You can see usr/local/bin is in my $PATH

root/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:/root/.rbenv/shims:/root/.rbenv/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin

However, I run the ruby script by cronjob I get the following error message: Unable to find Mozilla geckodriver.

My Cronjob

*/20 * * * * ~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv exec ruby /home/path/to/the/ruby/script/report_export.rb

I start the ruby script so it all works. Can someone help me that it also works by cronjob

justintime
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It could be that your export is located in place which is not called by cron daemon.

To investigate that replace your cronjob with echo $PATH >> /tmp/crontab.log and then check '/tmp/crontab.log' for PATH and check if /usr/local/bin is there.

Another reason could be that cron daemon is running as different user and thus has no access to geckodriver. Check ls -la /usr/local/bin | grep gecko. If that's the case, please checkout this SO question

Mark Huk
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